To give up on the MN mobile site?

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It's driving me mad. The constantly moving options bar rarely responds to what I try to select so I spend my time navigating away from the damn ads that it has gone to. Or alternatively giving up on trying to post or catch up with threads.

I know the ads keep MN free but they rarely are for anything that interests me so they are just spoil the MN experience. I'm sticking to using the desktop site on my mobile.

Same here - I gave up ages ago. My iPhone seems to have other ideas and regularly defaults to the mobile site. I suppose the bonus is that I spend far less time on here than I used to!

It doesn't work properly for me either. If a post has multiple pages, the option of just jumping to the last page has disappeared, very annoying.

Yanbu

Is it the app? I use the mobile site but disable JavaScript. It stops the ad being able to run and anything that moves (ie ads that flash or jump around) can't work.

Makes it so much easier.

I will try and screenshot an explanation

Same here. I gave up ages ago. Why they needed to change it I don't know. Spoils my bed time reading now. I have to read a book instead!

Actually ignore that

It's fine for lurking but not if you want to post and interact

Works ok on my Android, Samsung Galaxy Ace running Chrome browser.

Actually quite like it now that I am used to how it works.

Pity 3g reception is so bad in many areas I go.

I don't have a problem with it. I don't use the app and have a Galaxy S3.

I don't use the app. I've got a galaxy note and chrome

I prefer the mobile site to the app (android phone)

Block popups, disable cookies.

No it's not the app. I've got a geriatric Galaxy which defaults to the mobile version when you go online.

It's a waste of time. Maybe if we post in site stuff they might get a man with a spanner to do something?

I rather hoped the offline thing last Saturday meant they were tinkering to make it actually work, but seemingly not.

If dd is using the laptop (from where I am posting now) I go to MN on the phone, leave it for an hour or so while I go and do something else, then if I'm really really lucky, I will get Active up.

But yes, trying to actually post is useless.

I hated it when it first changed and switched to the app but tried the mobile site again the other day and it is just like the old mobile site for speed etc for me.

The screen on my phone is fairly small and that stupid moveable bar seems to fill most of it up so can't scroll the screen properly. Pretty much given up on using it now.

However, as it has just taken more than 10seconds for that post to post on here, and then load the adverts I'm not convinced that the main site is much better!

I have no idea which site I use on my phone, but I don't have the movable bar when I access MN on my phone.

Is it anything to do which software the phone uses?

Android user here BTW

iPhone here, how do you find chat in topics???

Can't be as bad as the app.

I don't mind it now apart from the bar which scrolls up and then jumps back when you scroll... It sort of 'sticks'. It makes it unusable.

I get a menu across the bottom of my phone on MN: Active, Watching, Home, I'm On and Search. I thought everyone got this.

That's it- that menu bar is the one which scrolls and moves.

It stays put on my phone.

Bully for you

My Iphone keeps defaulting back to it too, bloody annoying, I much prefer desktop.

The bar at the bottom is too big and annoying, and the ads are intrusive.
I don't like that you can't easily get to active unless you're logged in.
And the posting box is too small

That said, I don't have any problems using it. Sooooo much better than the app.